| Celestial Bodies (Arabic: سيدات القمر, romanized: Sayyidat al-Qamar, lit. 'Ladies of the Moon') is a 2010 novel by Omani author Jokha Alharthi. The novel follows the lives of three sisters and their unhappy marriages in al-Awafi, Oman.The novel has been translated into over 20 languages and marks the first novel by an Omani woman to be translated into English, as well as the first Omani novel to be translated to Italian. The original novel won the Best Omani Novel Award in 2010 and was longlisted for the Zayed Book Award in the 'Young Author' category in 2011. In 2019, the English translation was awarded the International Booker Prize, with Alharthi and translator Marilyn Booth equally sharing the £50,000 prize. Celestial Bodies is also the first novel to be translated from Arabic to win the prize. |
